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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords]

The question before us is such that I do believe that I would have accepted such an amendment on it, for this reason. If there is a sufficiency of concern about a matter as serious as this—which in my case has been increased by the speech of the right hon. Gentleman, who would not give an affirmative answer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith)—then I would, as a Minister, wish to make it clear that the Government whom I represented were against the kind of cloning that we are talking about. Therefore I would of course have received and accepted such an amendment.